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diff --git a/Documentation/date-formats.txt b/Documentation/date-formats.txt index 7e7eaba643..99c455f51c 100644 --- a/Documentation/date-formats.txt +++ b/Documentation/date-formats.txt @@ -1,10 +1,7 @@ DATE FORMATS ------------ -The `GIT_AUTHOR_DATE`, `GIT_COMMITTER_DATE` environment variables -ifdef::git-commit[] -and the `--date` option -endif::git-commit[] +The `GIT_AUTHOR_DATE` and `GIT_COMMITTER_DATE` environment variables support the following date formats: Git internal format:: @@ -22,8 +19,13 @@ ISO 8601:: `2005-04-07T22:13:13`. The parser accepts a space instead of the `T` character as well. Fractional parts of a second will be ignored, for example `2005-04-07T22:13:13.019` will be treated as - `2005-04-07T22:13:13` - + `2005-04-07T22:13:13`. + NOTE: In addition, the date part is accepted in the following formats: `YYYY.MM.DD`, `MM/DD/YYYY` and `DD.MM.YYYY`. + +ifdef::git-commit[] +In addition to recognizing all date formats above, the `--date` option +will also try to make sense of other, more human-centric date formats, +such as relative dates like "yesterday" or "last Friday at noon". +endif::git-commit[] |